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Separate slurs in A, contextual interpretation |
In A the ending of the slur in b. 25 (at the end of the line) very suggestively points to continuation, which is, however, not confirmed by the slur in b. 26. Both FC (→GE) and FE (→EE) reproduced those inconsistent slurs as one continuous slur. According to us, musically speaking, it would be more convincing to divide the slurs, since b. 21-25 constitute a coherent whole, kept in one register and melodically and harmonically complete: 
, whereas the last two bars – sonically separated (lower register) – complement the entire Prelude. If we were to adopt such an interpretation, we would have to assume that the ending of the slur in b. 25 is inaccurate, which is only seemingly impossible – cf. the similarly elongated, certainly inaccurate ending of the slur in b. 27.
category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness
issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, Uncertain slur continuation
notation: Slurs